There are more than enough resources left on earth to reach that goal but our great civilized cultures would rather see the starving masses die off than elevated to our own level if one is to believe people like you.
I agreed until I got here. Besides thinking the planet's ecosystem would not survive if everyone became as wasteful as the average American, many person could actually die. As has happened in the past, US hunger for coltan, used in cell phones, DVD players, video game systems, and computers has fueled fighting and massacres in the Congo.
From a envinonmental point of view, ethanol IS better than solar, etc. Solar cars need to use toxic components on the batteries,
And corn isn't grown with toxic chemicals? Or is not genetic engineered? If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. Corn has to be grown year after year using more and more chemicals and fuel whereas the equipment for solar installations lasts for years and years. Then when the equipment needs to be replaced it can be recycled.
Ethanol is the worst thing you can put in a lawn mower, boat, or other motor that isn't run every day.
No, ethanol is a bad thing to use as a fuel in an engine that is not designed to use it. Engines that are designed to use alcohol run good with it though.
Really? I don't recall seeing any surveys asking everybody if they want to use ethanol.
It is but one path to a greener source of energy. It's not the best option by a long shot
Now this I agree on. A big problem I see too many people having is looking for the "fuel" or "energy source" for everyone. Use what is available and makes sense in each location.
I'll keep my corn on the cob
A problem here is that corn is used as a feedstock for cows, poultry, and pigs. More corn is grown as a feedstock for cows than to feed humans and to make high fructose corn syrup which has little nutritional value.
By switching to a vegetarian diet there would be plenty of food to feed the world's population with no one starving or going hungry.
Falcon
Oh, btw the last sentence above make give readers the impression I am a vegetarian, but I'm not. Not only am I not a vegetarian but I love to hunt. I especially loving hunting for and eating gator tail, venison, wild boar, and frog legs. An occasional turtle soup is good too.
In the short term the Chinese rather have US factories through outsourcing than factory output, and is selling it's citizens into slavery to make it happen.
Reading stuff like this I have to wonder if the writer has a clue as to what's happening in China. Since China opened it's doors to businesses the lives, livelihood, and incomes of the Chinese has grown by leaps and bounds. The fourteenth richest person in the world is Li Ka-shing. The 2007 Chinese mainland billionaire list has 63 names on it, only beat by the number of billionaires the US has. And with 670,000 millionaires China comes in third place in how many millionaires the country has, behind the US and Japan.
All I read back then was his "Chaos Manor" in "Byte". Years later, late '80s or early '90s, I read "Lucifer's Hammer" I think that he co-wrote with is it Larry Nivens?
You may already be aware that the correct spelling is "professional"... instead of what they put up there. And they seem to have lost their apostrophe.
I missed it too, but the article I linked to has the right spelling and uses an apostrophe correctly.
Prevent Windows piracy. Use Linux instead.
I gave up on Microsoft, I use Macs and OSX as well as Linux though. I'm getting ready to install Lucid Lynx on my MacBook Pro. Then I want to upgrade my Linux PC and set it up as a server.
I haven't subscribed yet but when I can I plan to. Every issue is filled with maker projects, of different types. Although I haven't started any projects yet one I want to do combines different areas of interest I have, Garduino combines Gardening with an Arduino microcontroller board. Using simple sensors, such as nails stuck in dirt, to measure water and lighting and if needed the circuit activates servos to provide water or light. Why this project? Because I love electronics as well as gardening.
That site's more interesting than the last month of Slashdot and Toms Hardware combined.
I don't follow Toms Hardware but Slashdot doesn't have good how-to articles. The closest I've seen are Ask Slashdot questions.
I love Steve Levy's book. I'll tell, not ask or suggest but tell, those who use the word "hacker" improperly to read that book to understand how real hackers are, explorers and makers.
"IT is faced with new, pervasive user expectations – that all technology should work like the technology end users have at home, and that they can actually bring that technology into the work place," said InformationWeek editorial director Fritz Nelson. "This includes smart phones, tablets, social networks, and a host of gadgets and productivity software. IT needs to both manage and exploit the business value of these technologies."
Instead of bringing office tech into the home, they're looking at bring home tech into the office.
...unless it has Jerry Pournelle, Steve Ciarcia and others in it.
Until I started reading this thread I felt the same, I loved "Chaos Manor" and "Circuit Cellar". However after reading this thread I'm not sure about Jerry Pournelle anymore. If I want to read Steve Ciarcia, I can read his own magazine Circuit Cellar, and I do occasionally. I'll go ahead and check out the new print edition of "Byte" but I'll wait a few months before I ever subscribe to it.
Reading that page I didn't recall Jerry being that way. Then I looked at the dates, in the mid '80s. "Ooh, that's why". I didn't read him much in the '80s, only in the mid to late '70s.
If you're not going to bring back the whole point of an original magazine then why dump something on the market that's already covered by other publications>
Why? To try to make money off the old name. If for nothing more than curiosity I'll peruse the new print magazine and if I like it I'll buy it off the stand. Then after several months if I still like it I may subscribe.
Jerry Pournelle was one of the major reasons I canceled my subscription to Byte.
You are the first reader of Byte I've heard didn't like "Chaos Manor". Jerry Pournelle's column as well as Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar were 2 columns that kept me reading "Byte".
Why on earth would anyone want to pay money to read Pournelle's whining about how someone didn't give him enough free stuff;
I don't recall any of that, what I recall was how his teacher wife used computers to help her teach.
It does make me wonder, though, what happened to actual technical computing magazines. Sure, there are a few obscure Linux and similar ones out there, but getting into the nuts and bolts of a computer was(and still is) most of the fun. I suspect that instead of seeing "setting up your own home CNC machine for $500", we'll see yet another review and ad-driven site like all of the rest.
Though it's not focused on computers, Makezine is a good maker zine for the technical crowd. The same company also prints Craftzine for the crafts aficionado.
I never owned an IBM PC at the time, and from what I remember that was it's main focus
Not at all. Byte's focus was the Home Brew computer club audience. Even after IBM released the PC Byte remained focused on homebrews, hardware and software. Steve Ciarcia's column, back then it was a column not a separate magazine, was an example.
In depth articles about hardware hacking, software hacking, phreaking, schematic diagrams, source code listings, etc., it was a true nerd's dream, which was why it was the one that "employees of every other tech mag got used to being compared unfavorably with."
Same here. The two columns I looked forward to the most was Jerry Pournelle's "Chaos Manor" and Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar. Luckily he started his magazine.
Case in point is all the dark horse instigators the left places at right-wing events with the sole intention of causing an "incident" that might reflect badly on the organizers.
Another strawman? As if only leftists can do wrong.
You obviously don't understand proper English or rhetoric. You should have understood that I meant the person I replied to thought I was Republican. Over the past more than 10 years I have repeatedly said on Slahdot I was not Republican. Hell in the post you replied to saying I was Republican I specifically stated I was not Republican, that I voted for candidates from a bunch of parties as well as independents.
If you can't understand that don't bother replying, as I won't reply again.
But forget broad statements about rugged individuals, let's be specific:
# Public education - a great solution to the cycle of poverty, reduces crime, creates opportunity
One, public education used to and should be local not federal. Two, I have no problem with public education though parents should decide where they're children go and who gets the funding. I support the freedom to choice where parents send their children. What I do not support is schools that discriminate or that teach and favor one religion getting any tax payer money. I even support cutting the property taxes, which is what should pay for education, of those who home school their children.
# Public infrastructure - roads and high speed trains enable commerce and travel, reduce congestion and pollution
The Constitution of the USA authorizes the federal government to build roads. Section 8 - Powers of Congress says "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads". The interstate commerce justifies the building of interstate highways, there can't be much commerce if the roads don't exist. However I'd prefer local governments paying for most roads. And those roads should be paid for with user fees such as fuel taxes and mileage fees, the more a person drives the more they pay.
Public health care - cheaper (by about a third), better care, and portable, which means you can go start a business with less worry
I call bullshit and dare you to prove public health care is both better and cheaper. When you're researching don't neglect to include rationing, how Canadians have to come to the US to get operations, and how even Middle Eastern sheiks come to the US for the same surgeries.
I'm not saying there isn't problems with health care in the US, there are plenty of problems, almost all created by government. First there is little to no competition in insurance. As I stated upthread, and elsewhere a bunch of tymes, each state says who can offer insurance in that state. Now that would have been an excellent way for the feds to use the interstate commerce clause, require states to allow interstate commerce. If insurance in one state is cheaper than in another anyone should be allowed to buy that insurance, but as it is now people can not cross state-lines to buy insurance. Also the government needs to give those people who buy insurance on their own, like if I were to go to Mutual of Omaha (MoO) to buy it, the same tax breaks businesses get for offering health insurance to employers. That's right, right now employers get tax deductions for offering employees insurance but I do not get the same deductions if I go to MoO on my own. That is government interference and is not a free market. It is government failure and not market failure.
You object to these things? You'd rather have the freedom of rotting infrastructure and poverty than build public works?
What I object to is you mixing different things and twisting things around.
ATT. Standard Oil. At this point, you're just wallowing in your ignorance.
It's you who are showing ignorance. ATT was a government granted monopoly. Governments gave ATT exclusive rights-of-ways or easements. Standard oil was another matter, and was broken up by a Republican, Trustbuster Theodore Roosevelt. Standard Oil was about illegal use of a monopoly. Oddly though the breakup of Standard raised oil prices. That was in part because Standard Oil came to agreements with railroad companies like Florida East Coast Railway which was owned by Henry Morrison Flagler. And Flagler was a partner with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil. Shipping costs for oil was lower for Standard than for other oil companies.
Did you knew that? I did, and unless you knew too, you're the ignorant one.
Face it: you live in a society, and that limits your actions somewhat
Society should only limit a person's action if they harm another. And society has that covered, it's called filing criminal charges against a person.
Socialism is simply the progression of looking out for one another that you should be involved in as a productive member of society. No man is an island, right?
Socialism is mandatory not voluntary. I am all for helping those who need help. I have donated to and volunteered for causes I support. For instance though in college I was an engineering major I helped the disabled and paid tuition out of my own pocket for a class in American Sign Language, ASL, so I could communicate with the hearing impaired. Have you? Or do you only want to dictate to others what they will pay for?
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There are more than enough resources left on earth to reach that goal but our great civilized cultures would rather see the starving masses die off than elevated to our own level if one is to believe people like you.
I agreed until I got here. Besides thinking the planet's ecosystem would not survive if everyone became as wasteful as the average American, many person could actually die. As has happened in the past, US hunger for coltan, used in cell phones, DVD players, video game systems, and computers has fueled fighting and massacres in the Congo.
Falcon
The US doesn't subsidize beets? You better tell that to the US Department of Agriculture.
Falcon
From a envinonmental point of view, ethanol IS better than solar, etc. Solar cars need to use toxic components on the batteries,
And corn isn't grown with toxic chemicals? Or is not genetic engineered? If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. Corn has to be grown year after year using more and more chemicals and fuel whereas the equipment for solar installations lasts for years and years. Then when the equipment needs to be replaced it can be recycled.
Falcon
Ethanol is the worst thing you can put in a lawn mower, boat, or other motor that isn't run every day.
No, ethanol is a bad thing to use as a fuel in an engine that is not designed to use it. Engines that are designed to use alcohol run good with it though.
Falcon
most people don't want to run ethanol.
Really? I don't recall seeing any surveys asking everybody if they want to use ethanol.
It is but one path to a greener source of energy. It's not the best option by a long shot
Now this I agree on. A big problem I see too many people having is looking for the "fuel" or "energy source" for everyone. Use what is available and makes sense in each location.
I'll keep my corn on the cob
A problem here is that corn is used as a feedstock for cows, poultry, and pigs. More corn is grown as a feedstock for cows than to feed humans and to make high fructose corn syrup which has little nutritional value.
By switching to a vegetarian diet there would be plenty of food to feed the world's population with no one starving or going hungry.
Falcon
Oh, btw the last sentence above make give readers the impression I am a vegetarian, but I'm not. Not only am I not a vegetarian but I love to hunt. I especially loving hunting for and eating gator tail, venison, wild boar, and frog legs. An occasional turtle soup is good too.
Falcon
In the short term the Chinese rather have US factories through outsourcing than factory output, and is selling it's citizens into slavery to make it happen.
Reading stuff like this I have to wonder if the writer has a clue as to what's happening in China. Since China opened it's doors to businesses the lives, livelihood, and incomes of the Chinese has grown by leaps and bounds. The fourteenth richest person in the world is Li Ka-shing. The 2007 Chinese mainland billionaire list has 63 names on it, only beat by the number of billionaires the US has. And with 670,000 millionaires China comes in third place in how many millionaires the country has, behind the US and Japan.
Falcon
He wrote his best SF in the '70s.
All I read back then was his "Chaos Manor" in "Byte". Years later, late '80s or early '90s, I read "Lucifer's Hammer" I think that he co-wrote with is it Larry Nivens?
Falcon
You may already be aware that the correct spelling is "professional" ... instead of what they put up there. And they seem to have lost their apostrophe.
I missed it too, but the article I linked to has the right spelling and uses an apostrophe correctly.
Prevent Windows piracy. Use Linux instead.
I gave up on Microsoft, I use Macs and OSX as well as Linux though. I'm getting ready to install Lucid Lynx on my MacBook Pro. Then I want to upgrade my Linux PC and set it up as a server.
Falcon
Thanks for the link. :)
I haven't subscribed yet but when I can I plan to. Every issue is filled with maker projects, of different types. Although I haven't started any projects yet one I want to do combines different areas of interest I have, Garduino combines Gardening with an Arduino microcontroller board. Using simple sensors, such as nails stuck in dirt, to measure water and lighting and if needed the circuit activates servos to provide water or light. Why this project? Because I love electronics as well as gardening.
That site's more interesting than the last month of Slashdot and Toms Hardware combined.
I don't follow Toms Hardware but Slashdot doesn't have good how-to articles. The closest I've seen are Ask Slashdot questions.
Falcon
I love Steve Levy's book. I'll tell, not ask or suggest but tell, those who use the word "hacker" improperly to read that book to understand how real hackers are, explorers and makers.
Falcon
It says "Profesional" in the title of the byte.com front page. I'm not optimistic.
Because that's the audience it's aimed at apparently. The article UBM TechWeb Re-Launching Popular Byte.com says this:
"IT is faced with new, pervasive user expectations – that all technology should work like the technology end users have at home, and that they can actually bring that technology into the work place," said InformationWeek editorial director Fritz Nelson. "This includes smart phones, tablets, social networks, and a host of gadgets and productivity software. IT needs to both manage and exploit the business value of these technologies."
Instead of bringing office tech into the home, they're looking at bring home tech into the office.
Falcon
...unless it has Jerry Pournelle, Steve Ciarcia and others in it.
Until I started reading this thread I felt the same, I loved "Chaos Manor" and "Circuit Cellar". However after reading this thread I'm not sure about Jerry Pournelle anymore. If I want to read Steve Ciarcia, I can read his own magazine Circuit Cellar, and I do occasionally. I'll go ahead and check out the new print edition of "Byte" but I'll wait a few months before I ever subscribe to it.
Falcon
Speaking of ego and nostalgia, I was also reminded of the story about how Jerry Pournelle got kicked off of the ARPAnet
Reading that page I didn't recall Jerry being that way. Then I looked at the dates, in the mid '80s. "Ooh, that's why". I didn't read him much in the '80s, only in the mid to late '70s.
Falcon
If you're not going to bring back the whole point of an original magazine then why dump something on the market that's already covered by other publications>
Why? To try to make money off the old name. If for nothing more than curiosity I'll peruse the new print magazine and if I like it I'll buy it off the stand. Then after several months if I still like it I may subscribe.
Falcon
Jerry Pournelle was one of the major reasons I canceled my subscription to Byte.
You are the first reader of Byte I've heard didn't like "Chaos Manor". Jerry Pournelle's column as well as Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar were 2 columns that kept me reading "Byte".
Why on earth would anyone want to pay money to read Pournelle's whining about how someone didn't give him enough free stuff;
I don't recall any of that, what I recall was how his teacher wife used computers to help her teach.
Falcon
It does make me wonder, though, what happened to actual technical computing magazines. Sure, there are a few obscure Linux and similar ones out there, but getting into the nuts and bolts of a computer was(and still is) most of the fun. I suspect that instead of seeing "setting up your own home CNC machine for $500", we'll see yet another review and ad-driven site like all of the rest.
Though it's not focused on computers, Makezine is a good maker zine for the technical crowd. The same company also prints Craftzine for the crafts aficionado.
Falcon
I never owned an IBM PC at the time, and from what I remember that was it's main focus
Not at all. Byte's focus was the Home Brew computer club audience. Even after IBM released the PC Byte remained focused on homebrews, hardware and software. Steve Ciarcia's column, back then it was a column not a separate magazine, was an example.
Another magazine I remember was COMPUTE's Gazette
I read it too, along with "AmigaWorld", Computer Shopper, Interface Age, and Creative Computing.
Falcon
In depth articles about hardware hacking, software hacking, phreaking, schematic diagrams, source code listings, etc., it was a true nerd's dream, which was why it was the one that "employees of every other tech mag got used to being compared unfavorably with."
Same here. The two columns I looked forward to the most was Jerry Pournelle's "Chaos Manor" and Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar. Luckily he started his magazine.
Falcon
Case in point is all the dark horse instigators the left places at right-wing events with the sole intention of causing an "incident" that might reflect badly on the organizers.
Another strawman? As if only leftists can do wrong.
Falcon
You have opinions, I have facts, you're are wrong.
I provided facts, which you gave little thought to.
Falcon
You obviously don't understand proper English or rhetoric. You should have understood that I meant the person I replied to thought I was Republican. Over the past more than 10 years I have repeatedly said on Slahdot I was not Republican. Hell in the post you replied to saying I was Republican I specifically stated I was not Republican, that I voted for candidates from a bunch of parties as well as independents.
If you can't understand that don't bother replying, as I won't reply again.
Falcon
But forget broad statements about rugged individuals, let's be specific:
# Public education - a great solution to the cycle of poverty, reduces crime, creates opportunity
One, public education used to and should be local not federal. Two, I have no problem with public education though parents should decide where they're children go and who gets the funding. I support the freedom to choice where parents send their children. What I do not support is schools that discriminate or that teach and favor one religion getting any tax payer money. I even support cutting the property taxes, which is what should pay for education, of those who home school their children.
# Public infrastructure - roads and high speed trains enable commerce and travel, reduce congestion and pollution
The Constitution of the USA authorizes the federal government to build roads. Section 8 - Powers of Congress says "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads". The interstate commerce justifies the building of interstate highways, there can't be much commerce if the roads don't exist. However I'd prefer local governments paying for most roads. And those roads should be paid for with user fees such as fuel taxes and mileage fees, the more a person drives the more they pay.
Public health care - cheaper (by about a third), better care, and portable, which means you can go start a business with less worry
I call bullshit and dare you to prove public health care is both better and cheaper. When you're researching don't neglect to include rationing, how Canadians have to come to the US to get operations, and how even Middle Eastern sheiks come to the US for the same surgeries.
I'm not saying there isn't problems with health care in the US, there are plenty of problems, almost all created by government. First there is little to no competition in insurance. As I stated upthread, and elsewhere a bunch of tymes, each state says who can offer insurance in that state. Now that would have been an excellent way for the feds to use the interstate commerce clause, require states to allow interstate commerce. If insurance in one state is cheaper than in another anyone should be allowed to buy that insurance, but as it is now people can not cross state-lines to buy insurance. Also the government needs to give those people who buy insurance on their own, like if I were to go to Mutual of Omaha (MoO) to buy it, the same tax breaks businesses get for offering health insurance to employers. That's right, right now employers get tax deductions for offering employees insurance but I do not get the same deductions if I go to MoO on my own. That is government interference and is not a free market. It is government failure and not market failure.
You object to these things? You'd rather have the freedom of rotting infrastructure and poverty than build public works?
What I object to is you mixing different things and twisting things around.
Falcon
Makezine has a new guide book out, 2011 Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide, that goes through how to set up and equip a workshop.
Falcon
ATT. Standard Oil. At this point, you're just wallowing in your ignorance.
It's you who are showing ignorance. ATT was a government granted monopoly. Governments gave ATT exclusive rights-of-ways or easements. Standard oil was another matter, and was broken up by a Republican, Trustbuster Theodore Roosevelt. Standard Oil was about illegal use of a monopoly. Oddly though the breakup of Standard raised oil prices. That was in part because Standard Oil came to agreements with railroad companies like Florida East Coast Railway which was owned by Henry Morrison Flagler. And Flagler was a partner with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil. Shipping costs for oil was lower for Standard than for other oil companies.
Did you knew that? I did, and unless you knew too, you're the ignorant one.
Falcon
Face it: you live in a society, and that limits your actions somewhat
Society should only limit a person's action if they harm another. And society has that covered, it's called filing criminal charges against a person.
Socialism is simply the progression of looking out for one another that you should be involved in as a productive member of society. No man is an island, right?
Socialism is mandatory not voluntary. I am all for helping those who need help. I have donated to and volunteered for causes I support. For instance though in college I was an engineering major I helped the disabled and paid tuition out of my own pocket for a class in American Sign Language, ASL, so I could communicate with the hearing impaired. Have you? Or do you only want to dictate to others what they will pay for?
Falcon